The Passion of Joan of Arc
(1928)
★ 8 IMDb · 1,124 votes
Year: 1928
Runtime: 110 мин
Country: France
Director: Карл Теодор Дрейер
Cast: Maria Falconetti, Eugène Silvain, André Berley, Maurice Schutz, Antonin Artaud, Мишель Симон, Jean d'Yd, Louis Ravet, Armand Lurville, Jacques Arnna
Plot
A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'd spoken to God, Jeanne d'Arc is subjected to inhumane treatment and scare tactics at the hands of church court officials. Initially bullied into changing her story, Jeanne eventually opts for what she sees as the truth. Her punishment, a famously brutal execution, earns her perpetual martyrdom.
Giovanna is taken to the Inquisition court and continues to pray in ecstasy after she's accused of blasphemy. A friar thinks that she's a saint but the solders take him away. Giovanna sees a cross in the shadow and feels comforted. She is not considered a daughter of God but a daughter of the devil and is sentenced to torture. Giovanna D 'Arco says that even if she dies she will not deny anything. The eyes are twisted by terror in front of the torture wheel and she faints and is taken to a bed, where she bleeds. When she feels that she is about to die, she asks to be buried in a consecrated area. While devoted ladies cry, Giovanna burns at the stake.